Congress has nothing to sell or show to country’s electorate: Jaitley

New Delhi: Hitting out at the Congress for ‘decrying’ its opponents, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the ruling party at the Centre was doing so as it has nothing to sell or show to the country’s electorate ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

Jaitley, who is the leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, lashed out at Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal for attacking BJP and the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

"The party may choose to decry its opponents as salesmen and showmen. Regrettably, the Congress Party has nothing to sell and certainly nothing to show to the electorate of this country," he said in an article.

Attacking Sibal for describing Modi as a 'salesman' and Arvind Kejriwal as a 'showman', Jaitley said Sibal and the Finance Minister have not only overlooked the fact that MadhyaPradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa were today regarded as one of the better administered states where the GDP growth is much higher than the national average even though three of them were considered as 'Bimaru'.

On Chidambaram, Jaitley said that he was expected to market the Indian economy before political and trade leaders of the world gathered at Davos, but he chose to hit out at the BJP instead.

The BJP leader said while the Finance Minister chose to speak about BJP and Modi at Davos, his utterances coincided with rating agency Moody's India report that says ‘the industry is today waiting for a political change led by Narendra Modi for a major turn-around to take place’.

On the Finance Minister's admission that his party goes into elections as an underdog, Jaitley said, “Congress may end up getting its lowest figure in the history of Indian parliamentary elections.”